History of Philosophy Audio Archive

Continuation of 135a

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were...

(00:00:00): Intro (00:00:52): Milton and Power (00:45:31): The Infant Cry of God (01:33:38): Credible Employment (02:24:03): Poetry and Virginity (03:15:35): Poetry and Marriage (04:02:57): Lycidas (04:55:10): Lycidas Part II (05:48:09): Areopagitica (06:35:08): Paradise Lost Book I (07:26:50): God and Mammon (08:17:49): Miltonic Smile (09:03:49): The Blind Prophet (09:51:35): Paradise Lost Book I...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.” -John Dewey, Experience and Education , 1938 -//- https://en.wikipedia....

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at ou...

“The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences" - Xinxin Ming , Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem Check out Astika's Website: https://www.consciousness-light.com/ Check out Astika's Book: https://a.co/d/7jXvINK -//- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinxin_Ming https://zenmoments.org/hsin-hsin-ming-the-great-way

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is fo...

“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.” -Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survi...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Philosophy could be characterized with only a bit of irony as what is left if you begin with the sum total of human thought and subtract those areas in which clear progress has been made. -Talbot Brewer, The Retrieval of Ethics , 2009 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/geBkIGDEU-k   Published February 2017 by the University of Chicago h...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon "Human civilization is the result of ten million years of striving after the unspeakable" -Terence McKenna

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just rema...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thought...

“If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people with any kind of moral or political immunization against violence, atrocity, or subservience to dictatorship.” -Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, 2003 Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/FAHUyHDTphQ Provided by the Departments of History...

“Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.” -Chris Hedges, The Wages of Revolt , 2015 Original YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXE6T1y...

End the killing now. Description from Media Sanctuary: Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times bestsellers War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Days of Destruction,...

“What is required is an attentive response to something real and other than ourselves, of which we have only inklings at first, but which comes more and more into being through our response to it – if we are truly responsive to it. We nurture it into being; or not. In this it has something of the structure of love.” -Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things, 2021 -//- Original YouTube: https://www...

By popular demand, Rick Roderick is back on the History of Philosophy Audio Archive. This is his complete series, Philosophy and Human Values. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:52 Socrates and the Life of Inquiry 00:47:13 Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics 01:28:45 Kant and the Path to Enlightenment 02:12:47 Mill on Liberty and Utilitarianism 02:56:53 Hege...

FEB 10 2026 - Note to listeners: Dartmouth removed this from YouTube, so it' snot available anymore. Those who want the original should use the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20250103210324/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afOWUuimwOI This was recorded at the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College on April 29, 2024 -------------- Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPat...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Recorded in March 1989. “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.” - Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine “It is useful to remember that no matter where we turn, there is rarely any shortage of elevated ideals to accompany the resort to violence.” -Noam Chomsky, H...

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made...

The soul, which is created quick to love, responds to everything that pleases, just as soon as beauty wakens it to act. - Dante, Purgatorio, Canto 18 Come join my Patreon! ⁠https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon⁠ -//- Original Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOxpl-cIPJg&t=191s

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters." -Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks , 1929. Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Credit for the copy below as well as the source videos goes to the great YouTube channel Philosophy Overdose. The lectures were first delivered in 1965. Isaiah Berlin gives a series of 6 lectures on Romanticism and some of its sources. For Berlin, the Romantics set in motion a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity’s view of itself. They...

This is a personal post, I hope you enjoy. "Our joy today is equal to the pain that made it" -Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Come to my Patreon for more. https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon